skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they might be colonies of photosynthetic Martian microorganisms, warmed from the sun, now sunbathing in plain view.

That's incredible. Is that really possible? I wonder why the rover doesn't check them out? It seems weird it's digging through soil looking for chemicals possibly related to life when there's potential life out in plain view.

NASA has some very strange priorities.
Mac App Store's Sandbox Loophole
Another way is to invert the phase of an instrumental version of the track (or the actual track) and mix them together.
Demo of using Cassandra Storage Engine:

https://kb.askmonty.org/en/cassandra-storage-engine-use-exam...
How we increased landing page conversion from 5% to 55%
I find it amazing you would write a 557 word reply and not include the following critical statement from the court that completely refutes your entire point about the court's intention in asking that question, and fully supports Samsung's argument:

THE COURT: ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ABOUT
THAT EXPERIENCE THAT WOULD AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO
BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TO BOTH SIDES IN THIS CASE? [1, p149:14]

This was a DIRECT question to Hogan. He and his wife both filed for bankruptcy as a result of Seagate's 1993 countersuit and nearly lost his house [2]. It's hardly a stretch of the imagination to wonder if he bears a grudge against Seagate and its currently majority shareholder, Samsung. If I were the judge I'd be furious.

[1] http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/uploadedFiles/Reute...

[2] http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/ViewNews...
Tap for Tap Hires Ryan Gerhardt as VP of Business Development
Joining Tap for Tap, Gerhardt will oversee mobile advertising, sales, and developer relations. Gerhardt brings over 5 years of direct marketing and mobile marketing experience to the team. Most recently, Gerhardt was Director of Mobile Business Development at a prominent performance marketing company where he worked with companies such as eHarmony, Zoosk, Kabam, Big Fish Games, and PBS.org. Gerhardt holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Victoria.
Rockefeller said (roughly): good business makes good friendships, good friendships makes bad business.

There are so many possible risk scenarios not discussed in that essay. It does take more maturity, healthy relationship skills and good communication to work with existing people in your life. But that's fine, we should develop those skills anyway.

It's perfectly possible that a CEO could be 'happy' while his/her friends quietly remain unhappy.

In a way, a company failing could be the best outcome for friends and family getting hired -- everyone tried together and bonded in the crash. The worst could be a quality exit, in which your friend is enriched at 10-100x the amount you are. It's hard to stay friends with someone who just worked you hard for n years and then made 100x the money off the experience.
Startup Weekend acquires StartupDigest
We generally feel that a window should only open in a new tab if the user explicity desires that action and we don't want to make that decision for them. We'd expect them do it via a Ctrl/Cmd click on the link.

We'll check into the loading gif.

Thanks!
Here is the xmodmap I use in Linux:

remove Lock = Caps_Lock
clear Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L BackSpace Escape BackSpace
add Control = Control_L

I've been playing with KR4MB and set Control_L to Control_L (+ When you type Control_L only, send Delete) + [KeyRepeat]

This is causing some angst, as I've discovered I sometimes tend to hold down the CapsLock key
before hitting another key. It's long enough for multiple deletes to be sent to an application (eg using Vrome in Chrome).

Shift_R has been remapped to <Esc>.
Street View for Google Maps iOS Web App
>Pythonistas apparently don't like new stuff, change, or hacking around with things. How could anyone with any knowledge of both Ruby and Python write something like that in seriousness?

Because he has seen it in the wild, and is evident in the long term behaviour of the two communities?

Pythonistas might like change and new stuff in the things they program WITH python or in other aspects of their lives, but they don't seem to appreciate it as much in their language, libraries and frameworks. Surely not as much as Ruby guys do.

See the quote from the Python core developer above: "We're a conservative community by nature - we generally don't like blazing trails when it comes to language design."
Not really, a CMS is good because you don't have to build the same thing multiple times. However, if you plan on using a CMS as a tool to create solid, scalable, efficient applications, you will need to understand how to use the CMS properly. Many times that means understand what the CMS is doing behind the scenes. Any good programmer should be able to code a project like Drupal, granted that would take time, but they should be able to do it without sweating too much. I get extremely tired of the noobs and click-monkeys taking of the drupal community. If you can't write your own decent CMS because you don't know how, you should find another job, and leave application development to people who can do it properly and give clients a product that is worth the money they payed.
Ah, very true, yes - and he's definitely in the uber-manly-man role there.
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StartupDigest acquired by Startup Weekend
What I find interesting is that nepotism is somewhat taboo in western culture. With businesses either deciding not to hire family or being careful to avoid favouritism.

On the other hand, shops in my area that are run by those originally from the east (or descendants thereof) are almost entirely family run with the assumption usually being that the oldest son is effectively the "deputy" and will be the one to run the business when the father retires.
Thanks Alan. Yes, it is very challenging indeed to see someone you love slowly losing touch with their defining experiences.

It also makes one poignantly aware of the ephemeral nature of our own memories.
Irker takes off like a rocket
X.25: completely separate protocol, nothing to do with TCP/IP or ARPANET.
CYCLADES: completely separate protocol.
Usenet, email: both predated the Internet and have nothing to do with it. Usenet ran over UUCP in its first incarnation, as did net mail.
When people decide to change their email address, they don't want to lose their accounts, and when someone else gets their old email address, they shouldn't have their accounts compromised. Seriously: even just "username" is better than email address. All of the advantages of using an email address as the primary key for an account are either not true or actively dangerous once you realize how little they mean to the vast vast majority of "normal people".

Facebook is a reasonable example: they allow you to use email addresses to log in, but your account is not tied to your email address. Ever since nearly forever, they have let you add new email addresses to your account, and you can remove old ones. They also seem to have some schemes in place for mitigating "I lost access to my University email address, and someone else got it" (which one would imagine to be nigh unto endemic for their use case).
Dan discussed the same topic recently in his usual whimsical and thorough fashion:

http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/05/16/the-music-goe...
50 new bitcoins are created every 10 minutes. That is 7200 coins a day, 2,628,000 a year. This is massive inflation and definitely has an effect on the currency.

No one really knows what the effect of halving of the mining rate will be. The currency is young, relatively small, and not yet very efficient (from an economic standpoint). However, everyone know the event is coming up. It MAY already be priced in. We won't know until the end of the year.

There is a small risk that this event may cause some disruptions in the underlying bitcoin infrastructure, however. The idea goes: Many miners are running full tilt going into the event. They know their income will half, so they want to get as much out of mining as possible before it happens. This drives up the difficultly level.

After the event, many of these miners may drop off as their operations suddenly become unprofitable (they are already running at the edge of profitability by revenue per kilowatt hour metrics).

When the miners drop off, it takes some time for the difficulty level to adjust (up to two weeks). Before the difficulty level adjusts, the time between transaction blocks will begin to grow, which slows down the confirmation of transactions. In a worse case scenario where a large volume of processing power leaves the network simultaneously, it could take several hours to get transactions confirmed for a few weeks after the event.
Will this actually matter, or even be noticed? Again, noone knows for sure.
Not in Detroit. True most of the $1 houses are gone but you'd be surprised by what $100 will purchase.

http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-houses-for-1-dollar-2...
As a fun exercise, check out all of the countries where the "Arab Spring" has been taking place (e.g. Iran, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt). All have a characteristic "bulge" around the 20 age range.

There is a tendency for infant mortality to drop (as a consequence of better health care) before fertility does (as a consequence of improved standard of living). The result is a bulge, and as these bulges come of age, they usually lead to revolution...
I think "A market is one of many varieties of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange. While parties may exchange goods and services by barter, most markets rely on sellers offering their goods or services (including labor) in exchange for money from buyers."

It seems to me there are many buyers and sellers in the app store.

I'm pretty sure you're just trolling at this point, but i'd be interested in you explaining your point of view. Hopefully, you would be kind enough to use more than 10 syllables.
We know.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+be...

It's been mentioned 19 times already in the last month according to Google.
This. I don't think App.net would have worked a year ago, maybe even not six months ago. But now, with Twitter actively attacking their developers, I imagine we'll be seeing a ton of ports from Twitter to App.net.

Twitter definitely considered the risk of cutting off their development community, but I don't think they intended to hand those developers off to a competing platform. Good timing from App.net.
This doesn't make much sense to me. I don't think it has anything to do with design at all.

If you really believed in 1, 2 & 3 then why start off saying you hate it too? And you think everyone else hates it too?

The reasons you give seem like building for the edge cases instead of the main use cases.

Also if this were the case they'd have ajaxified these articles long, long ago so it doesn't require a full page load to paginate to improve retention.

We all know why it's done, it's for more ad impressions.
I believe this stackoverflow question, asked today, would give us the answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12704366
Kudos! Drupal is good as a tool. But writing real code is where it's at bro. :)
Twitter introduces Brand Surveys for Advertisers
My experience includes tele-sales (sold AAA service, worked a script, made a million pitches, got a lot of rejection, but closed many a sale), computer retail (at computer store - knowing technical aspects, approaching people, listening, helping, closing), freelance (finding clients, listening, helping, closing). My network includes friends and colleagues in many professions, but am eager to grow this. As I mentioned in the post, I am offering a trade: I sell for you to gain experience, and learn, or re-learn how to sell. I can afford ~2 hrs a day. I am very motivated and resourceful. Let's talk!
I think my most successful 'troll' was a response to an Opera update post. My response was serious, as well as a 'troll'. It wasn't the most appropriate.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52837&cid=5227877

Yes: 382 responses. Successful troll was successful.
Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius
Love the trash can!
This seems overly ambitious. Is "FarmLand" really needed to create a viable "Hackert0wn"? Perhaps they should focus on doing one thing well first (such as an educational center or hackerspace) before adding in side projects that don't really enhance these other things. I can buy farm fresh food or join a CSA farm share in New York fairly easily -- I don't see the need to tie it into my workspace.
When planning a landing site for each rover mission, NASA considers a variety of factors and makes a best-guess as to the fruitfulness of each site from a scientific perspective.

Clearly a team of brilliant scientists has not failed to consider the possibility of exploring these strange spidery features, but they have decided against it for the time being.

It doesn't really make sense to assess their "strange priorities" as an outsider looking in with very limited knowledge as to how their decision making process actually works.
>It is telling that he only mentions web frameworks and leaves out what is arguably the most important Python library: NumPy. That alone tells me he doesn't truly understand the whole Python ecosystem and, therefor, it's culture.

"Most important" for who? I've used Python since 1999, and have never used, had a need for, or even installed NumPy.

It's mainly important in the scientific community, not to most enterprise, startup and independent python developers out there.
Touch gestures
The way Apple's restrictions work, you can't build global opt outs like that. Services, for the record, would love to be able to do it; in fact, I was once begged by some companies in the analytics space (think Flurry) to build a global opt out for their products on jailbroken devices, and after contacting other companies I found out they all wanted to do it but couldn't (so I built it).
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System Applications Working Group
I second Waze. Its replaced my GPS, a mr T voiced TomTom (Mr T yelling directions at you is awsome...) Only one problem years ago when Waze couldn't give me directions. Its gotten a lot better as more have used it. There are enough drivers using it that don't feel I'm testing the roads for all the drivers behind me anymore.
The guess is random geyser's powered by CO2 plumes, so probably dangerous for the rover to check out directly. Or, maybe they will check it out during the time of the year it's cold. Not sure how far away the rover is from this, either.
The music industry surely doesn’t share our mindset, they will just sue you into oblivion.

No, they won't, because it's impossible. They'll sue an extremely small proportion of the "pirates" and lose money in the process: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100713/17400810200.shtml

Ridiculous is thinking this is a better approach than not suing your customers.

Would it be impressive to be able to assert that every single copy of your software was paid for?

Yes, absolutely! What kind of web browser would one use?

Of course, if you mean a licensed instead of paid, then not, it's not. Here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/
How about the title of the linked article? When speaking to immigrants, what does keep your entrepeneurs mean? I can see if you were speaking to another country, but to immigrants? And if they are immigrants doesn't that mean they are already here?
A baffling interpretation.

> THE COURT: ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ABOUT
THAT EXPERIENCE THAT WOULD AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO
BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TO BOTH SIDES IN THIS CASE?

> PROSPECTIVE JUROR: I DON'T BELIEVE SO.

They are clearly asking questions to see if potential jurors can be fair and impartial.

EDIT: Personally I'm amazed they find so many patent holders and so few active Facebook users among the potential jurors.
I would sign up for app.net if they supported open standards such as OStatus.
The New Social: Barriers To Entry
Show HN: Hacker News Toronto Meetup
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you're doing server-side JavaScript/Node, there is https://npmjs.org/ or simply `npm search` from the command line.
I have seen several pieces by Wadhwa in Techcrunch [1]. The point usually seems to be "Microsoft and Google can't hire all the developers they want at the price they're willing to pay; we should increase H1-B quotas".

This isn't to say that immigration is bad or that MS and Google aren't having trouble hiring, it's to say that MS and Google might very well be able to find more people within the US if they paid more.

Look at it in the context of six top tech companies being caught colluding to keep domestic employee wages down through no-poach agreements [2].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/30/free-the-h-1bs-free-the-eco...

[2] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/September/10-at-1076.html
Well clearly someone doesn't mind the endless postings of the same things, I've been down-voted.

Never mind - good job I don't care about the karma. I still think it's important to cross-reference existing discussion, and look at previous submissions of the same story.
A question I have is how the duck can a language like C# introduce TONS of changes from 1.0 to 5.0, including major syntactic, semantic and library features, and still be widely adopted, whereas Python has to have a "five year migration" for what are essentially some minor language changes.
I can't quite figure this site out, but if I've got it right, should be around 10 miles.

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024736_2565

Edit:

Ahah, here we are, about 1km:

http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/ESP/ORB_024...
The App.net reward program probably motivated them as well: http://blog.app.net/blog/2012/09/27/announcing-the-app-net-d....

I think the App.net guys made an astute observation that the biggest hurdle to attracting developers was doing away with the perception as the platform as a gamble for developers.

It doesn't hurt that the Tapbots guys used the Tweetbot apps to piggyback on, of course.
Agreed. Check this out in particular: http://rapgenius.com/1107426

Basically Rap Genius developed a feature that Andreessen himself wanted to build directly into the browser in 1993! Whole thing makes a lot more sense with that context
Reed Timmer, Storm Chaser, Uses Twitter Bootstrap, Devise & Stripe
Prelim analysis of RgbenchMM
I was rather surprised, but glad, to see this.
Hey FoundCamera.com is well cool! How long have you put this live?

Yes I love helping people and I agree this is a great area to work on :) I have not introduce "Report Lost" because people don't tend to browse what have someone else lost, and even if I do browse it I might not lucky enough to come across it. I think everyone want to help everyone, but that depends on how easy it is, so I hope this mobile app platform could simplify the process.

Yes I just let people send message to each other at the moment. I allow people messaging each other without "claiming" it, do you think it's good idea? Is there any suggestion for me to promote this platform? Thank you so much :)

Terry
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Yes, two actually.

[1] http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02Letter-from-Apple-...
Apple Owns The World's Largest Hedge Fund
Looks like http://i.imgur.com/N6HR2.jpg when I go to the page using iOS 6 on iPhone 5
In the US, you also need to look at state laws. In at least Illinois, there are limits on what an employer can claim ownership of, no matter what the contract says.
The medicare deficit? How much do you think the "medicare deficit" is?
Show HN: My Weekend Project for our Anniversary
Just posting a little web app I made for my girlfriend for our anniversary. The idea isn't original, I (think?) I originally saw something similar on hacker news awhile back, but was unable to find the original link.

This improves on a few aspects. First off, it's pure javascript so real easy to get it up and running, no server stuff to deal with. And second, although it's randomized, it'll make sure to display every reason in reasons.txt once before cycling through again :).

https://github.com/saiko-chriskun/loveyoukelly
This stuff blows me away. I think, holy crap this planet has all sorts of real exo-planet kinds of weirdness. I love the idea of reverse icicles although for the life of me I can't imagine what would hold them up once the CO2 gas has vaporized out.

One part of me wants to build another Curiosity style rover and catch the next Earth/Mars orbital cycle and put it down near stuff like this.

I can believe folks would find this as inspiring as looking back at the planet from the Moon.
Yeah; just for starters, such a sandy area seems like a serious risk on its own to a rover, never mind the risk actual geysers would pose. The geysers are interesting, but are they worth jeopardizing an entire rover expedition for?
Er, technically this license doesn't stop forks -- they are explicitly allowed -- but it definitely propagates the non-commercial clause. I agree, it's definitely not Open Source.
Landau Levels, Electrons' Elusive Magnetic Orbits, Imaged For First Time
While I'm disinclined to take UX tips from MailChimp, there are at least two good situations to use 3rd party registration/login: 1) when you're getting more out of it than simple reg/login and 2) mobile.
Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists
Yeah, this ain't C.
Definitely. I'd just be happy if you could get a mechanical keyboard that uses the layout that MS uses for its ergonomic keyboards, with the split keys and the height gently swelling in the center where the split is. (Look at the Natural Keyboard 4000 to see what I'm talking about: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/natural-ergonomic-...)

Once you get used to typing on a keyboard that uses this layout, going back to a standard flat and un-split layout feels slow and painful. I love mechanical switches, but not enough to give up the much better layout of the Natural keyboards to get them.
If only there was a native iOS app for this! Time to switch to Android I think.
>The smartest people I know, use tools incredibly well. They make amazing things with Ruby. They make amazing things with Python. They make amazing things in other languages. I'm blessed to know all of them. None of them would share the opinion in this article, either by the offender, or the "reflector" on the differences.

Well, then you don't know the right people, because lots of Python and Ruby devs would agree with the premise of the article. I've seen it stated lots of time from Ruby devs (including top dogs) and you can find quotes from Python devs too with the exact same opinion (Ruby: new, changes, Python: stability, conservative change).

>No language+framework will make you a superhero. Customers and users don't care what the hell we code in.

No, be we do.

Also isn't this "no language+framework will make you a superhero" counter to the whole "beating the averages" and "blurb language" idea?

All other things being equal, a better language/framework WILL give you a competitive advantage.
I wonder how many members of the jury, including Hogan, owned iPhones?
This is a problem? If you really want to work in the US, getting a bachelor's degree is one of the easiest hurdles to cross!
> Mass assignment is widely used in Rails.

And register_globals was widely used in PHP, that does not make it anything but moronic.
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Exactly, I don't know why she didn't quit right away- even if it turns out her claims are completely true, can she still work in a place that she's (successfully or unsuccessfully) sued? And why would she want to? And why would you want an employee who's sued you? Is it standard to keep going to work after suing someone?
Which is also broken.